Drama New Zealand

Come and see a free professionally rehearsed play reading in Auckland 25 March 201o

Dr Paul Baker, Rector of Waitaki Boys High School has written a play about the Churchill family

REHEARSED PLAYREADING

 (The actors act, but with scripts)

 Thursday 25 March 6 pm – 8.30

 Pioneer Women’s Hall, Auckland, Corner O’Connell Street and Freyberg Place, opposite the Metropolis Apartments.

 Open to anyone.  Free.  Bring anyone who might be interested.  The more people who come, the more ATC might be convinced that the play is commercial!  

 UNFINISHED BUSINESS is a new play by Dr by Paul Baker.  The grandly dysfunctional Churchill family has always written its own history.   Anticipation of the eighty eight year old Sir Winston’s death, prompts a rapid re-write, during one turbulent family luncheon.  The host, Randolph, wants to know why his father betrayed him during the war and then abandoned him.   His sister, the recently and regularly bereaved Sarah, publicizes new and past relationships, all spectacularly unsuitable.  His mother, Lady Clementine is goaded into spilling a lifetime’s carefully hoarded beans.   Randolph’s research assistant, Dr Stephen Jenkins, pursues a subversive historical agenda of his own regarding the accuracy of Winston’s war memoirs.  New understandings are formed about the truth – family and national – and all its uses.

 Cast

 Churchill                        Ian Mune

Randolph Churchill         Stuart Devenie

Clementine Churchill      Ilona Rodgers

Sarah Churchill              Tandi Wright

Jenkins                         Sam Sneddon

 Director                         Peter Elliott

 The cast will have spent the previous two days workshopping the play.